Somnium

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depiction of Moon

...German astronomer Johannes Kepler used observations made by Tycho Brahe of Denmark to find empirically the laws governing planetary motion. Kepler wrote a remarkable work of science fiction,
Somnium (“The Dream”), that describes the life of imagined inhabitants of the Moon and correctly portrays such facts as the high temperature of the Moon’s sunlit side. In...